War Hounds in Lion Rampant: Anyone done that?

[AzSteven]

Built out some Dark Age Irish to serve as foes or mercenary hires for a Saxon army in a Dark Age version of Lion rampant, and the kit came with 10 wolfhounds.  Which got me wondering as to how to use them in Lion Rampant as part of the Irish force.  Some options I toyed with:

1 - 1/3 or 1/2 of a 12-model unit is made up of wolfhound models, but the unit just acts as a normal melee unit.

2 - The hounds become something like a 6-model Bidower unit (maybe 5 hounds and one human model) with the ranged attacks being treated as the hounds racing in to attack and running back to the handler.

3 - As the bidower force above but there is no ranged attack value (which seems to make them close to useless)

4 - Other?

Any thoughts?

[Hobgoblin]

You could just lift the Lesser Warbeast stats from Dragon Rampant and dial down the armour from three to two or even one. That would give you a fast, fierce but fragile unit that's prone to attack (Wild Charge). Five hounds and a handler would fit the bill.

Otherwise, I like your option 1 - especially for Fierce Foot.

[SotF]

You could just lift the Lesser Warbeast stats from Dragon Rampant and dial down the armour from three to two or even one. That would give you a fast, fierce but fragile unit that's prone to attack (Wild Charge). Five hounds and a handler would fit the bill.

Otherwise, I like your option 1 - especially for Fierce Foot.

While I haven't used them in Lion Rampant, my Dragon Rampant force does that, but keeps the armor...I used the Reaper Warlord wardogs which have some armor on them, especially the one that is from a hero one. Before that, I just mixed them in with cavalry because they're some big dogs

[superbmiller]

I just use War hound models and a few armed handlers as "fierce foot", but I'm not really sure if that's a great way to emulate them.